A takeaway owner says she has lost over £1,000 in a suspected scam on food delivery service Just Eat.
Sammy Davies, owner of Sammy’s Milkshakes Wonders, said she has been left “absolutely devastated” after falling victim to the suspected scam. She said that a convincing “hacker” gained her trust, before logging into her account, changing her business’ bank details and pocketing her profits.
The restaurant owner had been in touch with Just Eat a week prior due to a fault with her ordering machine, and says she had “no reason” to suspect that a call she received on Monday afternoon was not genuine, North Wales Live reported. Sammy says that the scammer knew all of her account details, including her login and password, leading her to believe that the phone call was legitimate.
“I’d been calling back and forth all week trying to get the issue with my machine sorted so when he called me I thought nothing of it,” she said.
“He knew my login details, my password, my phone number, he knew that I was waiting for this new machine to arrive. So I obviously believed it because he knew all my information.”
However, Sammy says she realised something wasn’t right when she didn’t receive her weekly payment later that week.
“When it got to Friday when I was supposed to get paid, I went onto my account, there was nothing there, so then I started thinking ‘What’s going on?’ That’s when I started panicking, that’s when I first thought something’s not right.”
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